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A Christian Directory
A Christian directory, or, A sum of practical theology and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortify every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.A Christian directory, or, A summ of practical theologie and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortifie every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
34. It is a blinding of reason, and a misusing the noblest faculties of the soul, and frustrating1 them of the use and ends which they were made for: And so it is the disorder, monstrosity, sickness, or death of the soul.
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35. It is (in its measure) the Image of the Devil upon the soul, who is the Father of sin: and therefore the moss odious deformity of the soul: And this where the Holy Ghost should dwell, and the Image and delight of God should be.
36. It is the moral destruction not only of the soul, but of the whole Creation, so far as the Creatures are appointed as the Means to bring or keep us unto God: For the Means, as a Means is destroyed when it is not used to its End: A ship is useless if no one be carried in it: A watch as such is useless, when not used to show the hour of the day. All the world as it is the Book that should teach us the will of God, is cast by, when that use is cast by. Nay sin useth the Creature against God which should have been used for him.
36. It is the moral destruction not only of the soul, but of the whole Creation, so farr as the Creatures are appointed as the Means to bring or keep us unto God: For the Means, as a Means is destroyed when it is not used to its End: A ship is useless if no one be carried in it: A watch as such is useless, when not used to shew the hour of the day. All the world as it is the Book that should teach us the will of God, is cast by, when that use is cast by. Nay sin useth the Creature against God which should have been used for him.